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The Bigness of the World
ISBN: 9780820334097 / Angielski / Twarda / 232 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Lori Ostlund s debut collection people seeking escape from situations at home venture out into a world that they find is just as complicated and troubled as the one they left behind. In prose highlighted by both satire and poignant observation, Ostlund offers characters that represent a different sort of everyman--men and women who poke fun at ideological rigidity while holding fast to good grammar and manners, people seeking connections in a world that seems increasingly foreign. In Upon Completion of Baldness a young woman shaves her head for a part in a movie in Hong Kong that will... In Lori Ostlund s debut collection people seeking escape from situations at home venture out into a world that they find is just as complicated and... |
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Bright Shards of Someplace Else
ISBN: 9780820346878 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up "Bright Shards of Someplace Else," Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound effects that occur when people misread the minds of others. The characters an array of artists, scientists, songwriters, nannies, horse trainers, and poets often try to pin down another s point of view, only to find that their own worldview is far from fixed. The characters in McFawn s stories long for and fear the encroachment of others. A young boy reduces his nanny s phone bill with a call, then convinces her he can solve her other problems.... In the eleven kaleidoscopic stories that make up "Bright Shards of Someplace Else," Monica McFawn traces the combustive, hilarious, and profound ef... |
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Red Roofs and Other Stories: Volume 79
ISBN: 9780472073276 / Angielski / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great writers of the twentieth century. The four stories in this volume date from the first and second decades of Tanizaki's long career and reflect themes that appear throughout his work: exoticism, sexuality, sadomasochism, contrasts between traditional and modern societies, disparities between appearance and reality, the power of dreams, amorality, an interest in cinema, and a fascination with the techniques of storytelling. The stories--translated...
Tanizaki Jun'ichiro (1886-1965), the author of Naomi; A Cat, a Man, and Two Women; and The Makioka Sisters, was one of the great ...
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American Indian Stories
ISBN: 9783732617586 / Angielski / Miękka / 90 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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147,27 |
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Liebesdramen aus der Kaiserzeit
ISBN: 9783746044538 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 314 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Mundartprosa von Ludwig Schröder, Friedrich Wilhelm Haase und Fritz Linde
ISBN: 9783751985260 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 386 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Traumstille: Heimatliche Kurzgeschichten
ISBN: 9783753420578 / Niemiecki / Miękka / 264 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Sommerregent?nze: Geschichten der schillernden Jahreszeit
ISBN: 9783756817276 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Schlampenacker 3.0: Das gro?e Finale, ganz mit ohne KI
ISBN: 9783769320794 / Niemiecki Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Briefe aus meiner Mühle (Großdruck)
ISBN: 9783847837336 / Niemiecki / Twarda / 176 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Ребята, нас обманули!: Жизнь в рассказах
ISBN: 9798887199085 / Rosyjski / Twarda / 162 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Эта книга известного антрополога и теоретика культуры Светланы Бойм (1959–2015), профессора Гарвардского университета и автора ряда научных монографий, вышедших на многих языках, включая русский, представляет собой сборник автобиографических рассказов, переведенных с английского, и позволяет русскоязычному читателю...
Эта книга известного антрополога и теоретика культуры Светланы Бойм (1959–2015), проф...
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Not for Sensitive Viewers
ISBN: 9780639719078 / Angielski / Miękka / 224 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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The Benevolent American in the Heart of Darkness
ISBN: 9781413470130 / Angielski / Twarda / 547 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Fire's Shadow: A Collection of Short Stories from Life
ISBN: 9781438974606 / Angielski / Twarda / 200 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Life is strange and beautiful. But sometimes overwhelming. As a result, we tell ourselves stories, to make these times move easier. If it were not for our daily stories, we would simply drift away into oblivion. I brought forward a collection of tales, twenty four in all, from as far away as the other side of the moon, to as near as your own home. They say truth is stranger than fiction, but this I tend to doubt. This is a book of fiction, So remember, things are not as they seem, and it's not over till the fat lady sings. So hang in there until the end, and you will not be disappointed.
Life is strange and beautiful. But sometimes overwhelming. As a result, we tell ourselves stories, to make these times move easier. If it were not for...
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The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe
ISBN: 9780020408918 / Angielski / Miękka / 656 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe stands as the most comprehensive edition of Thomas Wolfe's short fiction to date. Collected by Francis E. Skipp, these fifty-eight stories span the breadth of Thomas Wolfe's career, from the uninhibited young writer meticulously describing the enchanting birth of springtime in "The Train and the City" to his mature, sober account of a terrible lynching in "The Child by Tiger." Thirty-five of these stories have never before been collected, and "The Spanish Letter" is published here for the first time. Vital, compassionate, remarkably attuned to...
The Complete Short Stories of Thomas Wolfe stands as the most comprehensive edition of Thomas Wolfe's short fiction to date. Collected by Franc...
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...from a Muslim Electrician's Notebooks
ISBN: 9781432787943 / Angielski / Miękka / 98 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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Odds and Ends
ISBN: 9781640274631 / Angielski / Twarda / 582 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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A Singular Family: Rosacoke and Her Kin
ISBN: 9780684851884 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE ENTIRE MUSTIAN CYCLE IN ONE VOLUME, WITH A PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR
Rosacoke Mustian initially "stood up, live from her first paragraph" in one of Reynolds Price's earliest short stories, "A Chain of Love," and Price made the beginning of her life with Wesley Beavers the subject of his dazzling first novel, A Long and Happy Life. Eventually, Price spent two more novels, A Generous Man and Good Hearts, with this single family, telling a story of devotion and endurance that is now the hallmark of one of the most illustrious careers in American... FOR THE FIRST TIME, THE ENTIRE MUSTIAN CYCLE IN ONE VOLUME, WITH A PREFACE BY THE AUTHOR
Rosacoke Mustian initially "stood up, live from her firs... |
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The Collected Stories
ISBN: 9780743244992 / Angielski / Miękka / 640 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. For more than four decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, with a career remarkable both for its virtuosity and for the variety of literary forms embraced. Though perhaps best known as a novelist and poet, Price here likewise demonstrates his mastery of the short story.
These fifty stories include two early collections -- The Names and Faces of Heroes and Permanent Errors -- as well as more than two dozen stories that are gathered only in The Collected Stories. In his introduction, the author explains how, at one point, he wrote... For more than four decades, Reynolds Price has been one of America's most distinguished writers, with a career remarkable both for its virtuosity and ...
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Stories of Erskine Caldwell
ISBN: 9780820316949 / Angielski / Miękka / 688 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productive period of work. Included is "Crown-Fire," which James Dickey praised as "the best story in the language," and such personal favorites of Caldwell as "Country Full of Swedes," "The Windfall," "Horse Thief," "Yellow Girl," and "Kneel to the Rising Sun."
This collection of ninety-six stories was first published in 1953 and presents the best of Erskine Caldwell's short fiction from his most productive p...
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